Ex-Bellaire student commits suicide after leaving online clues

A former Bellaire High School student committed suicide Monday after posting a photo of a gun on her Twitter account and making references to suicide, local news outlets are reporting. Her friends said they thought she was joking.

On Monday, Ashley wrote on her Tumblr site: “If you know or have known what it feels like to want to die every minute second hour day week month year then you feel me. …

“The only thing that made me happy is gone. So in asking why can’t it be my choice to die now?” …

In November, another young woman from the Houston area took her life after opening up and sharing her pain online. Ashley Billasano, an 18-year-old Rosenberg high school student who had endured sexual abuse and felt justice eluded her, took her life.